- Library of Congress Jefferson Building Headquarters for the Congressional Research Service
Hi! I am Randy Foreman, a native of Waterloo Iowa and now a decade-long naturalized Washingtonian. I spent seven years on Capitol Hill working for various offices. So I have a feel for the Hill. One of the things I found in my time there was the Congressional Research Service's Reports. Almost daily, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) Comes up with new reports on legislative issues pending before members and their staffs. The reports that CRS are supposed are written mainly for members and only released when a member's office releases them. There are good reasons for this since the researchers that write these reports do want to keep them confidential and impartial. So as not having to worry about what the general public thinks about them. The Center for Democracy and Technology has embarked on a project to make those reports public through their OpenCRS website.
My plan with this blog is to do something that no one else in Washington is doing and that look at what the newest reports (as listed on the OpenCRS Twitter site coming out from CRS are and blog about them. CRS comes up with some amazing subject material. Everything from how a Post Office is named to the breakdown of the Labor-HHS Appropriations bill for the coming year. So we are going to have no shortage of material. I do not claim to be the strongest writer and what I post here hopefully will wet your appetite to read the report further. I look forward to reading your comments and hopefully together we all Republicans, Democrats and Independents will understand our Government much better.
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